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Zard (ザード, Zādo?) was a Japanese pop rock group. Originally a group of five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as group leader. However, Sakai was the only member who stayed on in the group while others joined and left regularly. As such, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably. Zard's work was sold under the record label B-Gram Records, Inc. Their most popular and successful songs are "Makenaide" (1993) (負けないで?), "Yureru Omoi" (1993) (揺れる想い?), and "My Friend" (1996).
Zard began when Being Corporation former CEO Daikō Nagato (retired in 2007) recruited a 24-year old model named Sachiko Kamachi. Changing her name to Izumi Sakai in an attempt to cut off her past, she created a group called Zard. While whether the supporting members were firmly decided on is not clear, Zard made a breakthrough with the release of their debut single February 10, 1991 Good-bye My Loneliness, which was a theme song for the Fuji TV drama "Ideals and Reality of Marriage" featuring Misako Tanaka. The song was very successful, reaching #9 in the Oricon rankings.
Actors: Vladimir Cosma (composer), Didier Kaminka (writer), Charlotte de Turckheim (actress), Daniel Auteuil (actor), Claude Zidi (writer), Claude Zidi (director), Didier Kaminka (actor), Sandrine Bonnaire (actress), Hubert Deschamps (actor), Jean Cherlian (actor), Jean-Paul Farré (actor), Guy Marchand (actor), Vladimir Cosma (actor), Jean-Paul Lilienfeld (actor), Nicole Saunier (editor),
Plot: A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera. The luckless guy follows and engages the singer in a war of dirty tricks in order to win the girl back.
Keywords: beach, dumb-surgeon, fake-shark, female-nudity, friendship, hyphen-in-title, mediterranean-sea, one-actress-for-twin-sisters, pedal-boat, punctuation-in-titleActors: Didier Kaminka (writer), Jean Cherlian (actor), Françoise Michaud (actress), Féodor Atkine (actor), Daniel Auteuil (actor), Claude Zidi (producer), Tonie Marshall (actress), Hubert Deschamps (actor), Etienne Draber (actor), Michel Galabru (actor), Richard Bohringer (actor), Henri Attal (actor), Raymond Bussières (actor), Claude Zidi (director), Claude Zidi (writer),
Plot: Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their careless life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero graduating pupils. Permissive headmaster Léon Jumaucourt's bitchy wife Lucie takes charge, determined to make them pass. She's no match for Bebel's tricks, despite cruel abuse, but the gang also annoys the public, including the dumb police commissioner. After a mix-up between their bomb-alert prop and a real terrorist group's African embassy attack, Bebel's bunch is condemned to pass their exams or go to jail, and the commissioner, charged with supervision, is in no mood to let them off easily.
Keywords: abuse, adolescent, baby-girl, beating, boxer-shorts, bully, cheating-at-exam, corporal-punishment, cult-film, dunce